Proud of Gurtej and Tanish
Gurtej Singh of Grade 6 and Tanish Chawla of Grade 8 have made us proud once again in Cricket. The children were shortlisted for a Cricket Camp held at Chandigarh under the guidance of former Indian Cricketer Yuvraj Singh and National Coaches.
Gurtej Singh won the Best Batsman Award in the Under-16 Category.
Tanish won the Best Emerging Talent Award in the Under-14 Category.
Huge congratulations to the Sports Team and the very proud Parents.
Recognition by MIT, USA - Heal the World App
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA has recognised Pranet Pahwa and his team as the winner of MIT APP INVENTOR APPATHON FOR GOOD 2021, they have selected their App Heal the world – Recycling Solutions for a better tomorrow as the winner for People Choice Youth team.
HEAL THE WORLD is an endeavour to encourage kids to take up Recycling Goals. The App is a step towards encouraging the people to undo the harm and save our planet.
We are constantly noticing that the Metro-Cities especially in the developing countries are drowning in their own garbage! According to the recent statistics India generates about sixty million tonnes of garbage. Out of this, 45 million tonnes of garbage remain untreated. To put that in other words, this is untreated garbage piled on the three million trucks!! If we go on this rate, then urban India will generate 160.5 million tonnes of garbage per year by 2041.
The objective of App 'Heal the World' is to bring awareness among children and adults of the countries that are grappling with problems related to recycling and waste management. This aims at sensitizing people to the impending problems related to waste management, to spread awareness in society about this highly important issue, to educate people why we have to think fast and hard about the importance of recycling for sustainable cities, to suggest ways to make recycling easy and practical at a minimum reasonable cost.
The app is divided into 3 sections.
The first section “Know more” shows us why and how to recycle.
The second section “Have some fun” is a section with two very interesting games and a very relevant quiz which will motivate the users to rethink their lifestyle choices and give their best to adopt recycling goals and take up trash management sincerely.
The third and the last section helps students, community members and the people at large to take part in solving the recycling problem.
The app offers three solutions to make sure that the cities meet their recycling goals. The first solution is when we want to recycle old things like clothes, toys, gadgets, books etc. most of us are unable to find avenues to recycle our used things. Through the App, the users can raise a request on the app and a representative will come to pick up the things which are no longer needed and the representative will further deliver the things to the NGO’s and the NGO’s will further make sure that the things reach the needy people. Once the things have been delivered, the user gets a message and the cycle closes. The second solution is to help people make their kitchen gardens and their own compost and if somebody does not know how to make a compost or a kitchen garden. Again a representative from Heal the world can be reached out to. Once a slot or an appointment is booked, the representative will visit the household and help in setting up the kitchen garden and a compost. The third solution is to help inspire and encourage people to join and volunteer for community cleaning drives.
Link of App - https://gallery.appinventor.mit.edu/?galleryid=bfb1b455-02ea-42e5-8bd4-e22db88930b2
Result Link: - https://appathon.appinventor.mit.edu/results
(Pls see: People’s Choice Results – Youth Team – Heal the world)
HCL Jigsaw Winner 2021 - Grade 9 Raghav Garg
HCL Jigsaw is a new pioneering program with an objective of building a culture of problem solving in the country, starting at the school level. This is India’s Premier Critical Reasoning Platform for students from Grades 6 to 9. It had participants from across the country in each grade. Raghav is among the 3 winners in Grade 9.
HCL Jigsaw aims to:
- Raise awareness on the importance of 21st century skills;
- Celebrate educators who strive hard to nurture these skills in young individuals.
- Recognize and reward students who have the potential to be tomorrow's leading problem-solvers; and
- Help all participating students understand improvement areas so that they can work towards developing these critical skills.
Rewards for Raghav Grag
The Winners Trophy.- Prizes worth up to INR 1 L per student including laptop, portable speaker and Wi-Fi printer.
- Learning opportunities at HCL Innovation Labs on real life projects.
Congratulations to India's Top Young Problem Solvers
Congratulations Avviraaj Kalia
Avviraaj Kalia of Grade 1 was placed 'Winner' in the 22nd Greens to Glory Junior Golf Tournamnet held at Classic Golf and Country Club in the age category E (8 years and below).
He previously secured 1st Position in the Champion of Champions Tournament by Acegolfindia held on 22nd July at Jaypee Greens Noida.
National Coding Olympiad - IIT Bhubaneswar
Pranet Pahwag of Grade 5 has been recognised by IIT Bhubaneswar and Super Teacher.
He has secured Second position in Pan India at the National Coding Olympiad (Junior) 2020-21.
He received the Merit Certificate, Rs. 3,000 Scholarship and Rs. 5,000 prize money.
Glimpse of his work.
https://youtu.be/YP7RLx4q0fw
Energy Boot Camp
Students worked on Nuclear and Climate Change. A team of 3 of our students presented a project on the working of a Nuclear Reactor, and stood 4th among 15 teams from Shiv Nadar Schools and Vidyagyan Schools. Saachi Gupta – Grade 6, Arnav Balyan – Grade 8 , Dhruva Vujayvargia – Grade 9
Shiv Nadar School, in association with Indian Youth Nuclear Society, organised the Energy Boot Camp from November 6 - 8, 2020. The three-day Boot Camp featured interactive sessions related to Nuclear Energy, Climate change and Sustainability for students to make them more aware about energy and the environment.
The preliminary phase of Energy Boot Camp commenced from October 6, 2020. During this phase, the students from the participating schools competed in the Creative activities, Interactive Experiment sessions and the Inter-School Competitions. Swinzal Taneja of our school was among the winners in multiple Individual competitions such as painting, rap song and poem and slogans and taglines. Maira Sikka was among the winners in the painting competition, and Aayana Aggarwal was one of the winners in the Memes and cartoons category.
There was an Inter-School Competition with multiple rounds consisting of Energy quiz, Public interaction through video making and technical group project. Our school team consisting of Arnav Balyan, Dhruva Vijayvargia and Saachi Gupta (mentored by the Physics teacher Ms. Megha Bohra and the nuclear scientist Ms. Mudra Chavda), qualified among 15 teams to compete in the Finale. In the finale, they presented their group project to eminent Nuclear Scientists and also participated in the ‘Youth Parliament’ along with the eminent experts and panelists from various fields. They stood 3rd runners up in the competition.
Ria Singh - Young Author
Ria Singh - Young Author
Article published in the Elephant Journal https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/05/falling-an-unexpected-journey/
Business World Education magazine published an authored by Ria. Article titled, “Air Pollution: Who Is Responsible? What Next?” http://bweducation.businessworld.in/article/Air-Pollution-Who-Is-Responsible-What-Next-/06-01-2020-181530/
1st Runner up in 1st Attempt - Safe Bench
– 1 Runner up in 1 Attempt: Grade 10 designed a project named "SAFE". It is a Self - Sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench. Aims to solve sanitized seating arrangement in public spaces.
olloquium is project based learning challenges aimed to solve a real world problem. The teams apply tech learning to solve these challenges. It not only displays the technology skills gained through different tech baskets offered at School but also harnesses entrepreneurial skills in students. Thus, offers enriching learning experience to students. Our Grade 10 students explored these projects for the first time. One team of Grade 10 came up with the project named "SAFE".
SAFE is a Self-sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench aiming to solve the sitting problem as it’s the most basic activities which has become a huge hassle and a danger to health due to pandemic. With the rapid increase of diseases to be seen, this bench can also contribute significantly in the future to combat other communicable diseases and create an overall clean environment. It focusses to solve the close contact and sanitising problem especially in the older people and children as they face more significant risk due to their weaker immune system.
Students bagged runner up position at the event. Names of the students are:
Nirvani Jain
Suhani Sharma
Mansi Aggarwal
Gurnoor Kaur
Arshia Jaitli
STEM & Space International Asteroid Discovery Project
Sanchit Kapoor’s (Grade 8) discovery is one of the only 11 discoveries that has been confirmed as provisional asteroid discoveries by the Minor Planet Catalog (MPC), and will be formally recorded in this catalog
Congratulations Mrs. Megha Bohra
Congratulations to Mrs. Megha Bohra as she is Shiv Nadar School - Topper – in Secondary School Physics
3rd Rank National in CENTA / 1st Rank in Subject – Physics / 1st Regional Rank